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**scuncio** · #1 09-29-2015, 02:07 AM

Nice fix. I have the same dipstick...but I'm using a '70 YH block which I believe (hope?) has those mounting bosses!

**njsteve** · #2 09-29-2015, 02:17 AM

If you're using a 70 block you probably will run into the same problem. They ran a windage tray and the lower dipstick tube attached to it. Do you have the 70 tray and dipstick tube?

The later model years got rid of the windage tray and used an oil pan with a welded-in baffle, instead. Since I am using the 1975 baffled oil pan i wanted to retain the matching dipstick assembly.

**njsteve** · #3 09-29-2015, 11:18 AM

Here's a shot of an earlier block with the factory windage tray mounted to the #2 and #4 main caps. When they went to the baffled pan, they stopped using the windage tray.

And the later baffled pan that replaced it. It prevented oil starvation. Due to the gentle slope in the center of the pan, the non-baffled pans were notorious for the starvation issues on deceleration when all the oil tsunami'd to the front of the pan causing the oil pickup to suck air.

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